Shield (disambiguation)
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Shield may refer to:
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[edit] Protection
- Shield, a hand-held protective device meant to intercept attacks
- Electromagnetic shielding
- RF shielding
- Shielded cable
- Deflector shield, a protective energy field
- Heat shield, which protects a spacecraft or ballistic missile
- Cold shield, used to protect from radiative heating
- Human shield, the use of civilians to deter an attack in warfare
- Radiation shielding
- Lead shielding
- Radiation shield, protects from ionizing radiation
- Shielding effect, in chemistry, is a reduction in the effective nuclear charge
- Tunnelling shield, used in excavation through soft soil
- Dalkon Shield
- Riot shield, used by police forces around the world for crowd control purposes
[edit] Things
- Shield (heraldry), the principal portion of a coat of arms
- Shield (geology), a large region of exposed Precambrian basement rock mass, usually at the centre of a continent
- Badge, which is called a "shield" in North American slang
- Shields sailboat, a sailboat class
[edit] Television and film
- Shields (Star Trek), a protective energy field
- S.H.I.E.L.D., a fictional agency in Marvel comics
- The Shield, a television police drama
- The Shield (Archie), a 1940s comic book character
- FA Community Shield, a British soccer trophy
- Shield, a song by Deep Purple
[edit] Places
- Shield Row, Durham, England
- Daddry Shield, Durham, England
- Shield's (restaurant), in Detroit
- North Shields, and South Shields, Tyneside, England
- Shields River, a Yellowstone River tributary
- Shields Road, an underground station in Glasgow, Scotland
[edit] See also
- Shields, a surname
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